keeping the lid on a little bit. but the day we leave anyway, it's all going to blow up. this is a total catastrophe and you might as well get out now because you're just wasting time and lives. >> i suspect he feels the same today because he's taking steps that dramatically take steps that escalate tensions in the region. erin burnett out front starts right now. up next, u.s. officials believe iran shot down a passenger plane killing 176 people, and they are not alone in believing this tonight. how does this happen? plus the president making a mysterious claim about general soleimani, quote, blowing up our embassy. what was he talking about? we have new information tonight. and a top republican says democrats love terrorists. let's go out front. good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, shot down. u.s. officials believe iran shot

down ukrainian jet at take o from the tehran international airport. according to officials, two russian made missiles took down the jet and we are told iranian radar had locked on to that jet liner just before it was shot down. that's all the evidence that u.s. intelligence has been accumulating at this time. the outcome is that 176 innocent people were slaughtered. and you're looking at brand-new video which appears to know the missile hitting the jet. you can see a bright light heading towards what we believe is that boeing 737, then that flash of light at impact. the person who captured this moment according to "the new york times" said they started filming after hearing, quote, some sort of shot. again, we have been told there were two, intelligence sources saying two russian made surface missiles involved. cnn cannot verify the

authenticity of this video. british and ukrainian officials also say the plane was shot down by iran. iran denies it did this, initially claimed it was mechanical error, something president trump dismissed out of hand. >> some people say it was mechanical. i personally don't think that's even a question. >> again, 176 innocent people were killed by what appears to be a trigger happy iranian. men, women, and children from across the world died in those horrific moments now in body bags on the ground. people from iran, canada, ukraine, sweden, afghanistan, germany, and the united kingdom. >> i lived for her. [ speaking foreign language ] >> canada suffered a huge loss. there were 63 canadians on board that doomed plane. tonight justin trudeau says he

too has intelligence pointing the finger at iran, though when trudeau was asked he would not say if he also blames the united states for killing an iranian general and sparking the escalating conflict. >> do you think that the united states is at least partially responsible for this tragedy? >> i think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or assigning blame or responsibility in whatever proportions. >> in whatever proportions, refusing to exonerate. this plane coming down is a terrifying development. 176 innocent people were killed. four hours after iran launched missiles at bases housing u.s. soldiers all the way in iraq, this plane was shot down in the middle of iran at the nation's biggest commercial airport. how could this have happened? jim sciutto is out front live in washington. jim, what are you learning tonight? >> more than a dozen times, it's a major international airport. this is a horrible human tragedy

but appears to be an egregious error by the iranian military. believed to be on alert for possible u.s. retaliation for the missile strikes four hours before this plane was taken down, saw this plane, thought it was a missile, and shot it down. >> we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface-to-air missile. >> the prime minister of canada echoing what a u.s. official familiar with the intelligence tells cnn, that the boeing 737 was shot down by russian-made surface-to-air missiles. multiple u.s. officials tell cnn the theory is that iran shot the plane down by mistake. this is based on u.s. intelligence collected from satellite and radar data. new video obtained by cnn seems to show a missile strike as a

fast-moving projectile flies across the sky before striking another object. cnn has not verified the authenticity of the video. the ukrainian international airlines flight fell a mere minutes after taking off from the capital, tehran. it was 6:15 a.m. local time. just four hours earlier, iran had launched missile strikes on u.s. troops in iraq. and with tensions between the two nations heightened to such a degree, iran may have made a deadly mistake. >> iranian air defense forces are obviously on very high alert right now. and that heightened alert may have made people misread what they were seeing on their radar scopes. >> but why this plane? there were 27 other flights either taking off from or landing at the tehran airport in the time between the two incidents according to flight radar 24. though before this kyiv-bound

flight took off, no planes had taken from off airport for more than 20 minutes. the head of the iranian civil authority says he does not believe a missile strike is to blame based on the flight data showing the plane attempted to returned to the airport, adding it would have flown from the sky immediately if the missile hit it. the debris on the ground will offer investigators other clues as to what happened. >> iran has invited an official from the ntsb to join in this investigation in iran. that's important if that is accepted. if it was closed run purely by iran, they could make up whatever conclusion they want. if you have these ukrainian officials involved as they are, someone from the ntsb, it means iran may or likely will have to acknowledge what happened here. >> i want to go out front with

justin amash. congressman, i wanted to start by asking you about this. iranian officials are trying to say that they didn't do this. their missile did not take down that ukrainian passenger plane despite the intelligence services concluding that and the united states officials also saying they have all this information indicating that. what do you think possibly happened here? >> well, i suspect u.s. officials and canadian officials and other officials are correct on this. and it's an unimaginable tragedy. and my prayers go out to the families and my condolences go out to them. >> i wanted to play for you the exchange of the canadian prime minister justin trudeau with a reporter today. >> do you think that the united states is at least partially responsible for this tragedy? >> i think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or asieping bla blame or responsibility in whatever proportions.

>> what do you make of that? >> well, i don't think it's a good idea to assign blame like this, you know, to say it's on the united states right now or anyone else without knowing the full facts. right now investigators think that it was iran that shot it down, and i think we'll have to leave it there and find out what more they have to say. >> do you think that there should be any repercussions to iran? >> well, we'll have to go through this investigation and find out what happened. and of course i think that the iranians will have a lot to answer for if, in fact, they shot down a passenger airline. >> so, you know this all, of course, started with president trump's decision to strike iran's top general, general soleimani right as he was going to the airport in baghdad. you just voted with most of the democrats and three republicans, congressman, including loyal trump supporter matt gaetz to

limit the president's ability to use military action against iran without first getting congressional approval. do you believe that trump abused his power in the strike that killed general soleimani? >> based on the information i have from the classified briefing i attended, i do think so. every military action that is non-defensive has to have congressional authorization under our constitution. so, we have a 2001 authorization, for example, to go after the 9/11 perpetrators. we have a 2002 authorization to go after saddam hussein's regime. but there's no authorization that is pertinent to this particular circumstance. so, the only way the president can act is defensively. so, there has to be imminence. if there's no imminence, it's not authorized. >> so, just to be clear, in the briefing you received, you're

using crucial words. imminence is one of them. you did not receive satisfactory intelligence in your briefing that whatever attack was imminent and thus justified presidential act without congressional approval. >> no, i didn't. i didn't receive more in the briefing than the kinds of things we hear on tv. so, if officials have been talking to the press, we heard the same kinds of things in the briefing. and when members ask for more information, there was a real he luck ta reluctance to provide information. and we had can we read this information anywhere and they weren't sure we would have the authority to read the information. maybe some members of congress like the gang of eight, but not everyone. >> so, we're still waiting tonight for speaker pelosi to send over the impeachment articles to the senate. we anticipate this could happen at any point. she did say today that it will be soon. do you think it's time, congressman amash? >> well, i think it's been

appropriate to wait during the break. there was no congressional action happening over christmas and over the new year. so, that was appropriate. i think it's appropriate in the near future to send them over. i mean, at some point there's action that happens in the house and that action has to be transmitted to the senate. but i'll leave it to the speaker to make that decision. i don't think this is going to go on for a very long period of time. but i imagine she wants to see what more she can get out of this in negotiation. and even though there's a lot of talk from the senate that nothing is happening and we're not getting anything on the house side, i'm not sure that's really the case. i think the senators have given a little bit. they've admitted that we may have witnesses later on whereas before they were talking about no witnesses at all. so, i think they are getting something out of this negotiation. >> so, you know, you're in a position here obviously extensive experience as a lawyer and litigator. there have been suggestions from democrats of you serving as an impeachment manager, right?

that you would be one of the people charged with that usual position of making the case for those articles to the senate. now that we're there, something that is imminent, is the naming of managers. is that something that you would want to do? >> it's something that i told my democratic colleagues who have asked me that i'd be happy to talk with the aspeaker about. but i had that discussion. if the speaker wants to have that discussion, of course i would be honored to have that conversation. but it's not something i could decide without knowing what my role would be and having that conversation with the speaker. >> all right. well, i appreciate your time, congressman amash. it's good to see you. >> thanks so much, erin. >> up front next, denial. the iranians insisting they did not shoot down that commercial plane with 176 people on board. they're saying it was turning back to the airport. plus the clock ticking on nancy pelosi. will she deliver the articles of impeachment by the end of the week? and did a top republican

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tonight iran disputing u.s. evidence which indicates that it was iran that shot down that ukrainian commercial airliner, killing 176 people on board. iran's head of aviation saying the plane turned back towards

the airport and questioned how can a plane be hit by a missile and try to turn back? fred plien kin is out in tehran. what the iranians saying about the u.s. saying it was iran? >> a lot of countries are saying that. you're right. the head of the investigative authority of iran was saying he believed if it would have been hit by a missile it would have fallen to the ground immediately. nevertheless the iranians are saying they're launching a full scale investigation. there was a tweet coming out from the foreign minister not too long ago. he said investigations of the cause of the ukrainian plane crash have launched based on international standards and icao regulations. ukraine and boeing have been invited as the owner and manufacture to take part.

we appreciate any country who can provide info to the committee in charge. that seems to indicate that the iranians also willing to take u.s. information into account as well. they're obviously trying to say that they want to conduct this investigation as transparentally as possible. now, erin, we do have information on the black boxes of the plane. we've been looking into this. the head of the civil aviation authority in iran tells us the iranians have found the black boxes. they say one of the black boxes is damaged. they're not sure how badly it's damaged. the iranians say in general they have the capability to read the data on the black boxes. they say they want to do that tomorrow morning together with ukrainian investigators on the ground here as well. however, the iranians say they're not sure whether or not they have the right technology to be able to read those black boxes if indeed they are badly damaged. so, they might have to send them to either france or canada, erin. >> thank you very much, fred. i want to go to peter goals. he is the ntsb manager and mark

kemmet. i appreciate both of your time very much. peter, we hear the ntsb may be involved. i want to be direct here, peter. you said you were suspicious about this crash from the very beginning. it now seems from all the intelligence that's coming in that you were right. what do you make of iran's claim a plane would not have been able to turn back to the airport if it had been hit by a missile? >> that's just foolishness. the radar track of the plane will tell at least part of the story. it will tell us exactly when the plane was hit or the catastrophic event occurred, and then it will show what happened after that. the idea that a plane being hit by a missile would not be able to change its course or have its course changed by the impact of the missile is foolishness. >> general, we looked up to see what was happening at the airport at this time.

again, four hours after the iranians had sent those missiles to bases where american troops were housed in iraq. 27 other commercial planes were able to safely take off or land in tehran between the time of iran's strike on u.s. bases and the ukrainian flight being shot down. so, we have 27 other planes. and then this one takes off. there's a 22-minute or so gap between the plane before it and this plane. and then we have the video proporting to show the moment of impact from the russian missile, at least one of them. we understand there may have been two. explain to us how this likely happened, general. i mean, who could be pushing the trigger to launch these missiles? and how could this have happened? >> well, the person that pushed these buttons are very young men. they're out in these facilities. they probably have one or two people that are providing oversight. they probably have their weapons on weapons release, not weapons hold. they look at their radar.

they misidentify an airplane there. they're on -- you know, they're leaning forward and they're expecting an american counterattack. and we've got simply human error if this is exactly what happened. >> peter, what's your response to this though? i mean, i guess -- i get confused in the sense of you look at a map, right, and you see tehran is -- you would think they would have plenty of time to see something coming in. they had seen 27 other planes coming in and out of the largest commercial airport in the country. you have a plane going up, not down. you have a plane going slowly at commercial flights, regularly scheduled flight. how could someone make this mistake four hours after the original strike? >> well, it's happened before. and it's happened on a u.s. military vessel misidentified an iranian airplane and shot it down. as the general said, it's the fog of war. i'm sure tensions were high. people were concerned. they were worried. they were expecting something

else. it's a tragedy. >> so, general, you know, we have pictures of the crash site. we don't totally understand what's happening there. we do understand there may be ntsb or boeing able to go there. at this point though that has not happened. this is pictures that are coming out that we are able to see, not like the ukraine situation where we were able to -- a lot of international journalists were on the crash site. that is not the case here. you can see a large piece of the plane there, nine holes where there were windows. how important is this going to be, this crash site, given we have no idea what iran has been doing to it since the crash? >> i'll refer to my colleague from the ntsb to determine what's going on on a crash site. what i would do if the iranians are being totally transparent, let's do an inventory of their missiles. it seems to me if they didn't shoot these missiles, then all the missiles should be accounted for. if they're missing two, that's a

high indication that these went somewhere. >> which i know is sort of nod your head and say that's obvious, but exactly. they have not done that. they have not shown any indication of that sort of transparency, to your point, general. peter, what do you think when you see the crash site? >> well, there's two things. one is you cannot describe or you cannot cover up a missile impact. you know, we learned that after mh-17. we've studied it after the twa crash. the impact of a missile leaves very distinct signatures. twa, there were none. on mh-17, it was clear that it was hit. the iranians are not going to be able to cover this up. the wreckage combined with the radar track, combined with the data recorders will tell the story. >> general, before we go, what does this say about the iranian

military? >> i don't think it says anything about the iranian military. i think it says a lot about all militaries which is no matter how much technology you have, no matter how much artificial intelligence you have, no matter how many gizmos you have, any time you've got a human in the loop, there are going to be mistakes. >> thank you both very much. next house speaker nancy pelosi preparing to hand over the articles of impeachment to the senate. what did she gain by holding out so long? a top democrat makes a ridiculous accusation saying the democrats love terrorists. how does he explain this? >> soleimani was a terrorist. >> no one should shed a tear over his death. e their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better.

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. new tonight, speaker nancy pelosi expected to deliver impeachment articles to the senate very soon, at any point, setting up a trial as quickly as next week. one source telling cnn this could happen in the next 24 hours. manu, what are you hearing tonight? >> reporter: it's still uncertain. behind closed doors i'm told nancy pelosi met with members of the leadership team, also met with the key chairman investigating the president.

in neither of those meetings did she tip her hand about exactly when she'll deliver the articles of impeachment. she only said it will happen soon, but what soon means is uncertain here in washington. i asked her if she's concerned this could undercut her message that the president is a clear and president danger to the american democracy. she said she's not concerned because she wants to move ahead strategically and smartly, in her words. she's demanded mitch mcconnell unveil and detail the rules and procedures of how the trial will play out. but i asked mitch mcconnell just earlier this evening whether or not he would do what she's asking for and release that resolution that would have to be approved by the senate in order for her to send over the articles of impeachment. he said, quote, no, we aren't going to do that. he does not want to, in his words, haggle with the house. he says she simply needs to turn over those articles of impeachment. and republicans are content

because they're seeing democratic impatience growing in the ranks including one freshman democrat who voted to impeach the president, ben mcadams, who told me earlier today that it's time to send over the articles of impeachment to the house. the republicans are sitting back hoping the pressure grows on nancy pelosi that she'll ultimately send over those articles. but she is frustrated about the process that mitch mcconnell is detailing in the senate, how he's not agreeing to have witnesses up front, to having documents up front. she's hoping something can change the dynamic. at the moment we do expect those articles to be sent and the trial could take place next week. >> i want to go out front to gloria borger and joe. joe, we expect the articles very soon. so, whenever that is, 24 hours from now, 2 hours from now. whenever it may be, they get formally walked over and handed to mitch mcconnell, then what happens? >> presumably on monday, mitch

mcconnell will take it to the floor. he'll have to get 51 votes to pass the resolution to run the rules the way he wants to do it. he's calling it the clinton model. we can argue about that. there's two phases. one is the house impeachment managers will make their case. the white house will present their defense. in 1999, that each took about three days. and then the senators get to ask questions. remember they don't get to stand on the floor and ask the question in a tv moment. they have to put it in writing and go up. the senate will stay in session for monday through saturday based on senate rules. it'll be roughly 6 1/2, 7 hours. it won't go late into the night. these are very prescribed rules. you'll probably see, presuming this starts early next week, within about by the middle of the next week, you'll see the crucial moment of the debate. excuse me, of the trial. which is someone will move. maybe lindsey graham will motion

to dismiss it and be done with it. and someone will move from the democratic side, i presume, to call witnesses. >> so, the witnesses don't come in until you've done the six or seven, eight days of back report. >> right. then they will haggle. they will haggle between the opening of the trial behind closed doors until they get to the vote on the basis of whether there will be witnesses or not. >> gloria, that's a pretty incredible thing. i think a lot of people expected there's votes and we're going to vote on witnesses right up front if mcconnell hadn't caved before which he's not going to. this is going to be an ongoing battle. >> yeah, it's epic between nancy pelosi who knows the rules, who understands the congress, and who understands democrats and mitch mcconnell who is wily and understands republicans and is trying to behind the scenes convince donald trump what would work best for him, right? and our reporting is that what would work best for donald trump

is not to bring over the managers from the house who can be a little hot headed and that wouldn't sit well -- >> like jim jordan and people like that. >> right, exactly. i don't know if mcconnell will use that word. but that telling the president, look, this isn't about television. this is about the people sitting in that chamber who will make this decision. so don't worry about playing to the outside audience. you have to learn to play to the inside audience. and that's something that donald trump doesn't understand intuitively at all. >> so, you know, here's the thing, joe, people close to mitch mcconnell say at this point republicans are not going to vote right up front. witnesses are not part of the deal to begin with. we would see what would happen once you're a week or so in. lisa murkowski, moderate republicans, she's one of the people they would need to vote for witnesses. she said today it was

frustrating that the articles haven't been delivered. we wouldn't even know john bolton was willing to testify if it weren't for nancy pelosi holding the articles. that is true. is it true that the democrats could have done damage to themselves with people like murkowski by waiting so long? >> i don't think so. in fact they've only been back a week. pelosi had an amazingly weak hand she played to maximum advantage. she has brought focus on this trial as not will we be hearing the same thing over and over again about what the president did from the same voices and depositions. she's made this about will john bolton testify and will mick mulvaney testify? and that's a victory for her. the squirmishing democrats were never going to get the votes for schumer's plan at the outset. their game is to have the white house come in -- and remember, up until now, the main defense of the white house is there's no first hand corroboration that the president was involved in any of this.

and all the democrats have to do is continually raise their hand and say let's get that first hand corroboration. >> right, right. and gloria, the president was asked if he would allow john bolton to testify. his words were i have no problem except we have to protect executive privilege. that's an argument many lawyers say doesn't exist for john p bolton. >> that's right. john bolton has said i want to do this. you could argue if he wanted to do it, he could go on your show tonight and tell the world what he knows. the president has always said i would have had no trouble testifying before bob mueller. i wanted to testify before bob mueller. i would like people to testify, but you have to worry about privilege. he waived privilege with all those people who went and testified before bob mueller, and that didn't work out so well for him. so, now he has changed and he has been stonewalling, as you know, in this ukraine investigation. i believe that the president is

hopeful, is hopeful, that if bolton does testify, he'll be good to him. he may say he disagrees with him on policy but that the president did absolutely nothing wrong. we do not know the answer to that. but do i believe he really wants witnesses? he'll say it. but he'll listen to the lawyers who don't. >> all right. thank you both. i should say trump is on twitter tonight referring to bolton's analysis on the war powers vote a smart analysis, doing everything he can to be nice to john bolton. >> exactly. next the president catching many off guard when he said this about killing iran's top general. >> we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. >> ah, what was he talking about? that was completely new and no one had heard it before. and guess what, we now have the information on exactly what that is. and did a top republican cross the line when he said this? >> nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. they are in love with terrorists. we see that.

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breaking news, president trump in a rally in ohio. just moments ago, he said this

about iran's top general. >> soleimani was actively planning new attacks, and he was looking very seriously at our embassies and not just the embassy in baghdad. but we stopped him, and we stopped him quickly and we stopped him cold. >> president doubling down after he surprised everyone when he said this earlier today. >> we caught a total monster. we took him out. and that should have happened a long time ago. we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy. we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious. >> kaitlan collins is out front. she's at the white house. kaitlan, so, embassies tonight, embassy earlier today. all of it was new information. >> yeah, the president seems to be revealing a lot today. and it caught everyone's attention when the president seemed to say that kind of offhandedly earlier today when he was speaking with reporters

here at the white house. we have gotten more clarification from a senior defense that confirmed yes, general soleimani was planning multiple attacks and included an attack on the embassy in baghdad that did involve explosives. that was one of many plots soleimani was planning out, strategizing on. they didn't give a lot of details on what the plots included citing security information saying it was sensitive information. so, it is notable that the president on stage at the first rally of the year in ohio says it was not just singular, embassy, which is what he said at the white house earlier today. he is saying it was multiple embassies there were plots on. this is notable not only for the reason that the president and the administration have been saying is behind the reason to authorize that strike but also because of what you're hearing from lawmakers who are being briefed on capitol hill yesterday. you heard a lot of people, some

frequent critics of the president, some not, some allies of the president, criticizing the administration for not giving them enough intelligence on this or not revealing what they knew about this and what led them to make that decision. a lot of these lawmakers said they didn't want to know everything, but they do have security clearances, they wanted to know more than they did and they weren't left feeling satisfied. the president seemed to reveal a little bit more information than what we knew previously about what these attacks were that were being plotted out. >> and of course revealing a lot of information and although nothing about the imminent nature or lack thereof of said plans. okay. thank you very much kaitlan. next a republican making an unfounded claim about democrats. i guess we can put it that way. >> nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. they are in love with terrorists. we see that. >> and the queen is not happy. why did prince harry defy her

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breaking news, the president just moments ago in a rally in ohio appearing to give new information about why the united states chose to launch a strike against iran's top general. >> soleimani was actively planning new attacks, and he was looking very seriously at our embassies and not just the embassy in baghdad. but we stopped him, and we stopped him quickly, and he stopped him cold. >> this comes after earlier today the president said that soleimani had been planning an attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad, only talking about the one embassy, using explosives. out front now, republican congressman mike turner of ohio who sits on the intelligence and armed services committees. congressman, good to have you with me. is this news to you that there were attacks planned on

embassies or earlier he said specifically the embassy in baghdad? >> as you know, i serve on the intelligence committee, and i can't confirm or deny the information we received. i received an extensive briefing on what information that the president had reviewed, what the intelligence community had put together about what threats we were facing from soleimani and what they were planning. i can tell you it was incredibly extensive. there was no one on the committee that was not deeply impressed with the threat both to our men and women in uniform a declassify information as he goes so he'll decide what to reveal and when he reveals it. if you look at what's been happening with iran, both before this administration exited the jcpoa and after, their malign activities tlhroughout the regin

have been increasing, hezbollah, hamas, what's happening in yemen throughout the area, they're attack -- their attack directly on saudi arabia has placed the entire area in a significant amount of disarray and the president taking this response, obviously to turn that corner and have some deterrence effect on iran's ambassad actions in the future. >> you're being very precise and not revealing classified information, which the president of the united states is doing at a rally, correct? >> that's what you reported. i don't know in what other manner he has made those statements. it is within his purview to determine what remains classified and what does not remain classified. there are different levels of briefings that happen on capitol hill, the big eight, the chairman and ranking members and the intelligence committee and then the full congress that gets a briefing. on the senate side there were

some dissatisfied -- >> to say the least for sure, right. >> on the house side it was full and complete. on the intelligence committee, there was in-depth reporting and information. the intelligence committee was very thorough in the rising threat. >> do you think there's any possible negative or risk that comes from him revealing information that obviously is classified about the embassy-planned attacks? do you think in any way that it is -- >> i don't really have a concern. even on your network we've seen the video of the prior attack that's happened on the baghdadi -- we all watched the flames and smoke boiling out of the embassy as a result of the attack that happened there. i don't think report organize speculating on what iran -- iran s itself continues to have its

entire parliament chant district attorney -- death to america. >> i was at a rally, the people hadn't been any friendlier to me at the rally. it felt like a thing and a trope. i understand your point but my experience was different. >> i rab pretty much your entire life by a few years has chanted death to america. they have taken actions, lethal killings of americans, given weaponry to people who do kill americans. it not just a slogan. it's not something iran has systematically continued to do, it part of their seeking weapons of mass destruction and their claim to want to wipe israel off the face of the earth. these are real threats from the leadership of iran, even though and i'm glad you had a safe and warm response, the people on the street may be different than those controlling their

military. >> and that is true. and on that point, you along with your republican colleagues and democratic colleagues said that soleimani was doing horrible things. there's no question soleimani was a vicious terrorist, no one should shed a tear over his death. menend menendez, soleimani was a terrorist. those are your democratic colleagues in the house and senate. your republican colleague, republican on the house judiciary committee said this about nancy pelosi and her decision to hold a vote today on the president's right to strike soleimani. >> nancy pelosi does it again and her democrats fall right in line. one, they're in love with terrorists. we see that. >> would you have ever said that? >> well, what i would say is -- thank you for couching it in

that way, erin, that's very polite in your raising the issue, i think there have been some irresponsible statements on the democrat sidejackie spear w was u.s. just claiming -- i think there are irresponsible things. i think the resolution today was misplac misplaced. we could have done a resolution that calls for iran to become a peaceful, active force in the middle east. instead we took a resolution to try to restrict -- >> what about collins' comments? >> i believe that doug collins needs to obviously respond to you as to your criticism of his comments. we see troubling comments on the democrat side that have caused people to pause and say are we all on the same team here understanding iran is a threat to our country of the united states and our men and women in the uniform.

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of sussex raises more questions than answers. they make no mens of gition of up their royal titles, but they want to become financially independent. they say they'll give up money from the sovereign grant and try to earn their own income as many minor members of the family do. they've applied for a trademark for "sussex royal" but there's a risk, being accused of monetizing the very monarchy from which they're trying to distance themselves. critics of the couple point out their security will still be funded by the taxpayer. they also hope to keep their official residence in windsor. >> will people accept the premise that they are appearing on the world stage as working

royals and go off and acting, taking a private income with a private venture? >> reporter: if the family can't agree with a new royal going forward, the sussexes may have consider leaving their royal roles altogether. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. gonod evening. there is new video that appears to show a missile fired into the sky in tehran and hitting a moving object. we're going to play the entire clip. we're only going to show it very sparingly tonight and only when necessary to illustrate a particular point. you're going to first see what